Tag Archives: flexible working

Until quite recently the coaching community wouldn’t touch e-learning with a barge pole. Many coaches and counsellors thought that coaching and counselling has to be done face to face or not at all. However, techniques have moved on and experience has shown that in many cases (though probably not all)

Once a month I like to look back on what I was blogging about this time last year and in previous years. It often prompts reflection on how things have – or have not – changed and where I have moved on to. In July 2009 I was looking at

I feel at the moment I’m at a chapter break in my life, looking for new opportunities in my working life, and I have been pondering how useful it is to set goals. The task of re-assessing one’s life and career path should always start with establishing one’s values, but

The second Media Camp Nottingham on 27th March was at the excellent venue Lace Market House on High Pavement. One might think from the lack of funding and traditional media and other interest in digital and creative industries that there wasn’t much going on in Nottingham. This second event organised

More and more companies and organisations are taking advantage of the benefits that flexible working and particularly remote working offers. There can be particular challenges for the manager of a remote team, however. Here are some of the best practice activities we’ve identified from our own and others’ experiences: Analyse

One of the sad side-points to this week’s revelations about MPs expenses is that a remote worker is seen as not an appropriate employee. At a time when flexible working of all kinds is supporting companies through the recession as well as providing a better work/life balance for countless employees

Twitter has failed and your shared online calendar is down. The lag on your task list server is too great for the overloaded wifi you’re currently using and you’ve forgotten your password for that Google Doc you were working on… Would this scenario paralyse your day to day work? I’ve

Let’s hear it for the women who are learning to conquer the web… Today (24th March) is Ada Lovelace Day, an international day of blogging organised by Suw Charman-Anderson to draw attention to women excelling in technology. The FindingAda website explains: ” Women’s contributions often go unacknowledged, their innovations seldom

If you’re making plans for the year (though a bit late for actual resolutions perhaps?) then a good thing to think about is avoiding RSI. Learning technology and social media people spend a lot of time at keyboards and using computer mice. What would be the one thing that would

Frederick Taylor wrote The Principles of Scientific Management in 1911. His principles became known as Taylorism. He was the original proponent of the time-and-motion study, and setting up clear workflow processes. This was developed into a process of essentially getting workers to function like a machine. His principles included: Develop